Extra And MC

60  Chapter 56 - Proposal

"Fuuu…"

A fairly tall and slim but well-built man who was in his mid-thirties, let out a deep breath of air while staring at the mirror in front of him.

His black hair was a tad bit disheveled and his fairly good-looking yet stoic face showed immense signs of fatigue, indicating he definitely did not have a good night's rest but despite this, the man in question had similarly black eyes that were brimming with hopes and dreams for the future.

After looking at himself for a few more minutes whilst inwardly repeating his daily mantras to help himself get in the right state of mind, the man opened the tap of the modern basin, cupped his hands to scoop out water and then used it to rinse his face.

After seemingly doing a few more of this in an effort to maintain a much more presentable appearance, he tucked a few strands that were sticking out of his slicked back hair and straightened the red tie on his outfit, a business white t-shirt with black suit pants and a similarly black-colored vest along with black derby leather shoes.

"Just one more year… Just one more year and I'll be able to kick him out and become the CEO of this company…" he muttered to himself, after which he then spoke with conviction.

"Let's do this" he voiced calmly.

Upon saying this, the man turned around, opened the doors leading out of the restroom and stepped into the office corridors of Realm-Lore Elixir's Headquarters.

Even though it was early morning, the corridors were bustling with office workers going about their duties in an organized fashion, all with the intent of completing their duties as soon as possible.

"Good morning sir!" one of the office workers respectfully greeted him with a smile, immediately resuming on his own path without even waiting for the man's response.

The man who had also expected this, gave a slight nod in response while continuously walking forward with confident and purposeful strides while carrying an air of professionalism.

As he kept moving towards, other workers did the same, greeting him either with respectful smiles or nods.

From these interactions, it was obvious that whoever the man in question was, was without a doubt, someone who was of great importance to the company.

His name, was Donovan Silver, and he was unexpectedly, not the CEO of this company, despite having all the skills to perform exceedingly well in such a position but instead, he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO), second-in-command only to the CEO.

"Donovan!" a woman who was dressed professionally walked towards him with brisk steps, a smile on her lips as she closed the distance between them quickly.

"How's your morning going?" she asked while now walking side-by-side with him.

"Like every other morning Rose. What's on the agenda today?" Donovan bluntly answered.

"It's always as blunt as ever and down-to-business with you. That being said, you have a meeting with Duke Belmont regarding that peculiar message he sent. He's presently in the conference room with four other youths, whom he claims are just as important to the negotiations that'll be going down today" his long-time secretary lengthily replied.

"I already have everyone stationed there, from the Director, Manager, Supervisor and Accountant down to the representative of the sales and marketing department, especially considering how immensely groundbreaking it would be if his claims are actually true…" Rose concluded.

Donovan stopped in his tracks after hearing this and contemplated for a moment.

'As ridiculously unbelievable as it sounds, if it is actually as he says, forget even trying to place our foot on the ground, we would exponentially rise to the top in just a matter of days. This could literally be what we've always needed…'

"Okay Rose. Let's head in" Donovan responded calmly after he was done with his thoughts.

"Yes sir" she answered professionally, her smiles gone and replaced with a stoic expression while now walking a few steps behind him.

As soon as both of them entered the conference room, they were quite surprised to see the calmness that all five of the people in question were exuding despite being stared at by all the people Rose had previously listed sitting just across on the other side of the table from them.

Starting from the Duke himself who was seated calmly, to the orange-haired youths who just from their eye-catchingly handsome and beautiful looks, was obvious that they were twins and two other young youths, one with an immensely handsome appearance mirroring the duke's and the other with an almost otherworldly feel to his own handsome features.

Rose who had walked in just seconds after Donovan did, had to admit, that in all her life, she had never seen so many insanely good-looking people gathered together in one place at the same time but despite this, her and Donovan's professional facial expressions did not waver even a millimeter.

They were here concerning a serious claim that could either take their company to the top or be an immense waste of their time. They were here for business.

"Well then, let's get this meeting started" Donovan spoke while sitting in the chairs that was purposely kept vacant for he and Rose by their co-workers.

"Good Morning Duke Leopold. It is a pleasure to finally meet you in person" Donovan commented professionally with outstretched palms, to which Leopold shook while responding in similar fashion.

"The pleasure is mutual. I've been looking forward to this as well"

"I won't waste your time at all Mr. Donovan" Leopold immediately followed up.

"So let's get down to business immediately" he continued while procuring two potions from his spatial ring.

"This is the 95% healing potion that the top companies have been secretly manufacturing and selling at ridiculous prices" Leopold said while tossing over the potion to Donovan who nodded slightly in response to his words.

After appraising it and seeing that it was also true, Donovan had a string of thoughts roll through his mind while passing the potion over to his team for appraisal too.

'This was so hard to get and procure, even for top companies. So how exactly did he even get his hands on this?'

"And this, is the 99% healing potion that was created by the two youths beside me" Leopold said while gesturing over to Ivelia and Ivar who were seated on his right side, snapping Donovan out of his thoughts.

Everyone present there looked at Leopold with genuinely skeptic looks, asides Donovan and Rose of course who maintained their stoic expressions, and then glanced over to the twins who despite keeping a confident expression on their faces, were internally quite nervous about how the meeting was going.

The eyes of the people staring at them conveyed just how much doubt they had but soon enough, Leopold tossed over the potion to them and Donovan who after appraising it, had a slight break in his unchanging professional expression.

Rose however could not contain her shock and from her expression, it was evident how just in stupefied she was.

Despite even knowing that the Tower had created a healing potion with an efficacy rate of 95%, it was still almost an unbelievable thing because for almost a decade and a few years now, 90% efficacy was what the world had known to be the absolute peak for a potion's creation.

So it had come as a real shocker to almost everyone that had secretly known about the 95% potion that had being created.

Now however, she and Donovan along with the rest of their team, could not help but be genuinely baffled by this insane turn of events but soon enough again, Leopold along with his sons and the twins took them for another crazy ride.

"To show just how immensely efficient the efficacy is, I've had a certain hospital test the 95% and 99% with a contract and an oath sworn to secrecy. Flynn, do the honors" Leopold spoke again.

Flynn as if already expecting this, immediately retrieved a tiny slate which could only be described as this world's version of a USB from his bracelet and gently placed it on the wide office table.

"In that drive, you'll find said video so feel free to project it" Leopold explained with a gesture of his hands.

One of the staff members who was promptly ordered by Rose following his explanation, quickly stood up and connected the drive to the giant holographic screen present in the conference room, navigated to the video and began to play it.

The staff members of Realm-Lore Elixirs watched with bated breaths as the 95% potion which was administered to a patient with an amputated limb, instantly heal and reattached said limb that had being cut off from an accident years ago, the old flesh, bones, nerves and blood vessels seemingly becoming fresher by the minute and slowly reattaching themselves as if already ordered to do so and looking as good as new.

The potion with a 99% efficacy however did something almost miraculous to say the least as another patient, after ingesting the potion, watched as he regrew both of his lower limbs back from scratch without any single defect in it at an ultra-regenerative speed.

"At this point, you're probably wondering if it's an edited video but honestly, there's no way I can prove it further than what I've already shown you" Leopold spoke, snapping the staff members of the company from their shocked state after watching the video.

"I will however like to let you know that their creation was not a fluke and for that, we definitely have enough proof" Leopold stated with poise and calmness in his tone.

As if on cue, Aiden and Ivar summoned multiple other potions with 99% efficacy from their spatial rings while placing them on the table while Ivelia summoned a copy of a file from her bracelet.

The staff members at Realm-Lore Elixirs instantly began to pick the potions one after the other and they were once again dumbfounded as to how not even a single potion was less than 99%.

Donovan and Rose however were now growing ever increasingly curious by who the heck these youths were and how they were able to create something that was beyond groundbreaking and was definitely going to put their name in the history books.

Ivelia who had now perused through the contents of the file she had retrieved one more time, handed it over to Donovan and Rose who then had their eyes widen as Donovan himself continuously flipped through page after page, every single one of them detailing a step by step process as to how the potion was created.

After a while of giving them enough time to gather their wits, Leopold spoke once more, this time, with a smile on his lips.

"So Mr. Donovan, would Realm-Lore Elixirs like to sign a contract detailing the negotiations of a profit-sharing arrangement that will benefit both parties" he said calmly and professionally.

"Let's explore how we can create a mutually beneficial partnership" Leopold concluded, both of his palms interlocked and placed on the large modern ergonomic office table that they were all seated at.

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